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As adults we are obliged to avert transformation of the Earth from a flourishing planet into a heap of smoking ruins. Our duty is to hand it over to our successors in a better state than it was inherited by us.

— Yevgeniy Chazov Nobel Peace prize acceptance speech (1985)

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